An Enlightenment concept articulated by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1792. According to Rousseau, the social contract is an unspoken agreement between individual citizens, who surrender some of their rights and freedoms to the state. In return, the state protects their other rights and upholds and enforces the public will (a democratic consensus).
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[Britain] The Social Contract was a policy by the Labour government of Harold Wilson in 1970s Britain. In return for the repeal of 1971 Industrial Relations Act, food subsides and a freeze on rent increase, the Trade Union Congress would be able to persuade its members to cooperate in a programme of voluntary wage restraint. The Social Cont...
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[Ontario] The Social Contract was a 1993 initiative of the provincial Ontario New Democratic Party government of Bob Rae to impose austerity measures on civil service. The plan imposed a wage freeze and mandatory unpaid days of leave for civil servants, which became known as Rae Days. == History == Ontario in the 1990s was in the worst econ...
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In moral and political philosophy, the social contract or political contract is a theory or model, originating during the Age of Enlightenment, that typically addresses the questions of the origin of society and the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual. Social contract arguments typically posit that individuals have consent...
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[Malaysia] The social contract in Malaysia refers to the agreement made by the country`s founding fathers in the Constitution. The social contract usually refers to a quid pro quo trade-off through Articles 14–18 of the Constitution, pertaining to the granting of citizenship to the non-Bumiputera of Malaysia (particularly Malaysian Chines...
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in political philosophy, an actual or hypothetical compact, or agreement, between the ruled and their rulers, defining the rights and duties of ... [19 related articles]
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The idea that government authority derives originally from an agreement between ruler and ruled in which the former agrees to provide order in return for obedience from the latter. It has been used...
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that idea people give up some rights to a government and/or other authority in forming nations in order to jointly preserve or maintain social order and security.
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The Social Contract is a term common to the philosophy of the 17th and 18th centuries, embodying the old theory that civil society originated in a contract. It has been supported by very diverse arguments, and used to support conflicting conceptions. Generally it is assumed and original state of nature in which everyone did as they liked; from whic...
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n] - an implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society
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noun an implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society; individual surrenders liberty in return for protection
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The original covenant by which, according to certain philosophers of modern times -- Hooker, Hohbes, Althusius, Spinoza, Locke, Pufendorf, etc. -- individuals have united and formed the state. This theory was combined with the older idea of the governmental contract by which the people conferred the power of government upon a single person or a gr....
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The idea that government authority derives originally from an agreement between ruler and ruled in which the former agrees to provide order in return for obedience from the latter. It has been used to support both absolutism (Thomas Hobbes) and democracy (John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
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